MeFi comment:
"demiurge: with the original meaning of nonplussed, the person would have been speechless, and therefore unable to reply with “It feels so normal.” The supposed meaning, of unruffled, is gaining traction with the non-prescriptivists...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
32 minutes ago
MeFi comment:
"I always vaguely assumed this took place somewhere, done by someone, but I'd never myself dreamed of doing it.
That's how I felt when I watched someone "tip" Brooklyn police officers into not breaking up a huge loft party where there..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
7 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"The deed had been done with such effortlessness, such quotidian blaséness, that my friend was nonplussed.“It feels so normal,” she said.
on·plussed [ nòn plúst ] 1. confused: surprised, confused, and uncertain what to do or say
It really begs..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lyam
8 hours ago
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"The documentary Born Rich was just mentioned on the blue, and there was an interesting answer given by one of the female subjects as to why she only dates rich men, especially because she already has all the money she could ever want. She said she..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by elisynn
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"In the book F.I.A.S.C.O. an insider's view of aggressive banking and the rise of derivatives, they talk about unsuspecting midwestern pension fund managers who lose their entire fund by not understanding the small print, and the banker says with some..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Bitter soylent
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If Germany had that kind of stake in the U.S. economy, we would never have entered in WWII." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hazyjane
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"What Obama should say: "Well, we're really sorry that our opponent is unable to walk and chew gum a the same time..."
That was Lyndon Johnson describing Ford, but his actual quote was "fart and chew gum at the same time," and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by rokusan, Lesser Shrew
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Someone should paint a circle on the ground over in Williamsburg by the Brooklyn Bridge labeled 'young attractive couple goes here', and an X labeled 'camera goes here'...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, sidereal
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"the ones who have worked in tiny theaters for years doing amazing things
The day before Lee Breuer's award was announced I was talking with him while he carefully tapped the coffee grounds from an empty cup and ate them because he couldn't afford..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Scram, BrotherCaine, dlanznar
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I found a little hard bound book sitting in the trash near Wall Street. It's still around here somewhere. It was about 75 pages long and each chapter explained with graphs and formulas a different type of derivative. The fun part was the price of the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't get it. What's the interesting part here.
The cycle of life." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by clearly
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Some friends of mine spent a year roughing it in a cabin, shooting squirrels and adding them to the ongoing stew in the pot hanging over the hearth. At the end of the year, when they went to leave, they found half an inch of lead shot at the bottom..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by The Light Fantastic, sebastienbailard
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""I can do anything, be anything, create anything..."
One of the distinct advantages of still being 10 years old." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dormant Gorilla
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""If you put them on CDs and stacked them up, that stack would be more than 12 miles (20 kilometers) tall."
Well then don't do that.
they will generate 15 million gigabytes of data
Or, with uncompressed 4:4:4 high definition video..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by afu
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who were being unlawfuly detained.
If the producers were detained unlawfully or not, wouldn't attempting to free them be cause enough for arresting her?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davidmsc
Last month
MeFi comment:
"When the water runs cold, it means you've cleared you building's plumbing, with all the handyman solder joints and pipes that have been dry and corroded at various times. Water directly from the main is usually much cleaner. If you continue to run..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by feathermeat
Last month
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"In a long term relationship, I think of there being at least five legs to the table:
safety: financial and physical, can you meet your needs together, are you healthy for each other?
sexual: well, you know what that is.
friendship: do you..." [
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favorited 169 times, recently by lalex, strangememes, pseudonick, blithely, barnacles, PFL
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Unadvisedly climbed up there in the teenage moonlight one winter, and took shelter in a sturdy open fronted structure at the top. The wind was blowing so hard across that open front that it sucked all the air out and I couldn't breathe, but if you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by any major dude
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I wonder if the orchestras do their usual hazing and prodding to these guys, like they do to unfamiliar conductors. Such as having one of the violas quietly play happy birthday instead of the written part. If the director doesn't give them an..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by jlbartosa, nasreddin, chrismear, surenoproblem
Last month
MeFi comment:
"All of the Olympic competitors will be required to pinch themselves really hard to determine if they a re real." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ZachsMind
Last month
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"I've found that one of the greatest boons to keeping the flow going is the journalistic convention of TK. It's a corrupted abbreviation for "to come," so when you're writing along with the flow, and come to a detail you can't quite remember,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
2 months ago
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"When I was walking around in Belgium at night, I came upon a giddy group of girls on a dark lawn down a side street. When I asked them what they were doing, they said the guest of honor was getting married, and the tradition was for them to burn..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hototogisu
2 months ago
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"A few roaches in your current apartment will not turn into an infestation in your new apartment.
Every time I've had to quash an aspiring infestation, it could be tied to corrugated cardboard boxes having been brought in from someone else's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by konolia
2 months ago
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"Write when you're mildly drunk, edit when you're mildly sober,
Fuzzy on the attribution (Hemingway?) but the prescription was: write on coffee, rewrite on scotch...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hought20, chicainthecity
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm going to embroider a little Honus Wagner on my sneakers." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by foot
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"torturing a non-sentient, stupid farm animal?
sen·tient ˈsen(t)-sh(ē-)ənt, ˈsen-tē-ənt
1 : responsive to or conscious of sense impressions; sentient..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by George_Spiggott
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'd be a little more impressed...
If the kid did the retouching himself using gimp on a 386 processor." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by milarepa
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Imagine if we all listened to Tesla in the 1930s!!!
We'd all be getting the power for our electric lights wirelessly, harnessing the oscillations induced in the resonating magnetic field of the entire planet. Of course, everything made of metal..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Hactar, borborygmi, davejay
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I wouldn't say that Make fetishizes simulacra of hackerly activities.
Not exactly. It's the boy-zone version of the many publications, like Martha Stewart, Better Homes and Gardens, Gormet, etc, that are collectively known in the industry as Dream..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Smart Dalek, chrismear
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"They should limit comments to their elite corps of friends, until people really want to join the exclusive club, and then charge, say, $5, just to put some kind of barrier to entry...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Matt Oneiros, sswiller, imperium, bonaldi
2 months ago
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"Feel like being on TV? This sounds like Judge Judy or some such would be all over it. They pay fees, and you get a plane ticket and a hotel room. I think some of those shoot in Chicago, anyway. Let the people decide...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tomboko
2 months ago
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"I got broadsided by some kids in their dad's rental. Huge clouds of sweet smoke roiled out of the door when they opened it. I took a piece of paper, drew a drawing, and wrote a statement of just what happened. I had each occpant of the car sign it,..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by blueberry, stupidsexyFlanders, Silly Ashles, Liosliath, xil
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I get my information from only two sources, this being one of them, and they have served me well.
So, yeah, saw it in the National Enquirer." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by JaredSeth, humannaire, dobbs
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd really like to see some data comparing divorce rates to the cost of the wedding
We endured a full year discussing the minutia of our friends extravagant wedding plans, only to have the wedding canceled when she discovered the New York Times..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
2 months ago
